Kraken suffer disappointing loss to Blues

While it might still be a little early in the season to talk about `must win’ games, the Seattle Kraken went into last night’s game at Climate Pledge Arena trailing the St. Louis Blues by one point in the suddenly tight Western Conference playoff race. For the Kraken it was a night of coulda, shoulda, woulda. Seattle dropped a 4-3 overtime decision to the Blues- a game they could have and should have won. Thanks to a solid second period, the Kraken took a 3-1 lead late into the second. But the visitors responded with three consecutive goals – including the tying (third period) and winning (overtime) goals off the stick of Blues’ forward Pavel Buchnevich. “That was a tough point to lose,” said Kraken coach Dave Hakstol. “We would have liked to have capitalized on one or two opportunities that we had that maybe would have changed the game.” While St. Louis took an early 1-0 lead on Oskar Lundquist’s power-play goal, the Kraken tied the contest on Brian Dumoulin’s slapper (E...